Cultivate Well-Being

Gardens to Engage the Senses
A rich presentation of twenty-one private residential gardens designed to enhance well-being by inspiring and heightening our senses in ways all gardeners can achieve.

Connecting to nature has long been a balm, an awakening of simple sensual pleasures that ultimately lays to rest the neural chatter that undermines well-being. A well-planned and tended garden is our shortcut to natureand to a renewed appreciation for small doses of compassion, amusement, and gratitude.

This lush, intimate tour of twenty-one private residential gardens reveals a focus on appealing to one particular sense, resulting in an intensely personalized approach to relaxation and beauty. Paths and seating are woven through the vestiges of a citrus ranch whose orange and tangerine blossoms scent the prevailing California sea breezes; softly burbling fountains dot a landscape near trees chosen for foliage that rustles,